Improvement in refrigerators



2 Sheeks' Sheet 1.

D. MULGAHY.

Refrigeratprs.

Patented April 22, 18?? FIG.

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2 Sheets--Sheet 2. D. MULGAHY.

Refrigerators.

No. 138,095, PatentedApril22,1873.

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U'Nrrnn STATE-s PATENT QFFIGE.

DENNIS MULOAHY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN REFRIGERATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,095, dated April22, 1873; application filed February 15, 1873.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DENNIS MULGAHY, of

Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented certainImprovements in Refrigerators; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full and correct description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation. Fig. 2is a plan, showing the parts below the line a: w of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is asectional elevation, showing parts to the left of the line 00 w ofFig. 1. Fig. 4: is a sectional elevation, showing the parts to the rightof the line 00 x of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation through theline 00 x of Fig. 3.

The object of this invention is the construction of a refrigerator inwhich all parts shall be kept at the same temperature, while articlesmay easily be placed in one part or readily got at without disturbingarticles in another part. The invention consists, first, in theconstruction and arrangement of a series of drawers and closetscommunicatin g with each other and the ice-closet second, in thecombination and arrangement of a series of drawers in contact with theice-chamber and communicating with each other, and, third, in a portablecistern, so constructed and located as to form a drawer in therefrigerator.

A is the ice-chamber, lined with zinc, but havin g openings a and a a inits side, which communicate with other parts of the refrigerator, ashereafter described. b is the icerack. B B B are drawers, the bottoms ofwhich are formed of strong wires 0. The upper drawers have slots at intheir sides corresponding to the openings to in the sides of theice-closet. (J is a large closet at the bottom of the refrigerator,having two doors. The closet O communicates with the ice-closet by meansof the space 0 above the closet at one side of the refrigerator, and theopening a in the side of the ice-closet.

By means of the space 0, the openings to, a, and a, the slots (1 d, andthe wire bottoms of the drawers afree circulation of air is kept upthroughout the refrigerator, and thereis atendency to keep all parts atthe same temperature.

D is a portable cistern or drip-pan,formin g a part of the refrigeratorproper, as shown. It has a glass indexplate, t, to show the height ofthe water. It has a faucet, as shown,by which water may be drawn offbut, being in itself a drawer, it may be removed from the refrigeratorand thoroughly cleaned. This cistern is an important part of myinvention.

The refrigerator is set close upon the floor, and the space usually lostunder a refrigerator on each side of the drip-pan is saved, and made useof as a closet-room, while I have every advantage of seeing how full mydrip-pan is, and every advantage for cleaning it.

It is obvious that the same cistern or drippan might be used withrefrigerators otherwise resembling the common box refrigerator.

P is a pipe to conduct water from "the icecloset to the drip-pan. G is agutter underneath the drippan. It has a pipe, 1), running to the floorunderneath the refrigerator; the object of the gutter and its pipe beingto prevent any trouble within the refrigerator from accidental overflowof the pan, as with ordinary drip-pans the overflow is upon the floor.

Where there is good sewerage or drainage provided the pipes P and 10 maybe connected with each other and with the sewer, and the need of anydrip-pan avoided.

I claim-- 1. The combination and arrangement of the iee-chambers A,wire-bottomed drawers B B, and portable cistern D, substantially as andfor the purposes described.

2. A portable cistern, furnished with an indeX-glass, and forming a partof the refrigerator, substantially as described, for the purposedescribed.

The above specification of my said invention signed and witnessed atBoston this 10th day of February, A. D. 1873.

. DENNIS MULOAHY.

Witnesses: i

WILLIAM W. SWAN, (inns. H. SWAN.

